Clusel-Roch Les Traboules 2023 - 0,75l

Clusel-Roch Viognier 2023 is a dry Rhône white with peach tea, grassy lift, and granite-born freshness from the Côte-Rôtie district near Ampuis in France. It carries the estate's quiet northern Rhône touch in a small white frame. Expect peach skin, meadow grass, and a black-tea edge that feels tied to Clusel-Roch.

About the Wine
The 2023 Clusel-Roch Viognier comes from the Côte-Rôtie district, the steep northern Rhône landscape around Ampuis where this domaine built its name on Syrah. This dry white is made from Viognier grown on granite and schist, with biodynamic certification giving the farming a clear identity on the label. That soil note matters in the glass as a stony line under peach, grass, and damp hay. At 12.5% alcohol, it sits in a lighter register for Viognier, closer to tea infusion than apricot jam. Vinification stays discreet for a Clusel-Roch white from this 2023 release. The wine is aged in stainless steel or neutral oak, and the texture feels smooth with a clean cellar imprint. The palate carries peach iced tea, fine black tea, and a slight herbal snap. Those tea notes make this bottle feel unusually savoury for a Viognier from the Rhône. The finish leaves a green-grass scent and a lightly grippy feel on the tongue.

Tasting Notes
The nose of Clusel-Roch Viognier 2023 opens with damp hay, cut grass, and the quiet floral warmth of Viognier held in a compact frame. The first sip has peach iced tea, a fine black-tea bitterness, and a shape that runs beyond simple stone fruit. Mid-palate texture is smooth and dry, with the 12.5% alcohol giving a narrow line rather than the oily weight Viognier can sometimes carry. Granite and schist show as a dry grip near the finish, and the herbal note returns with a meadow-like scent after each swallow. Drink 2024-2027.

Food Pairing
Pour Clusel-Roch Viognier 2023 with fish in a gentle sauce, such as cod with beurre blanc or trout with almonds. The wine's peach-tea core also suits sweet shellfish, especially seared scallops with fennel or prawns with a little saffron and lemon. For a regional match, choose Lyonnaise pike quenelles with Nantua sauce and let the black-tea edge cut through the creamy crayfish richness. It also has the herbal lift for roast chicken with tarragon, or a salad of grilled courgette, goat cheese, and toasted hazelnuts.

Producer
Clusel-Roch is an Ampuis domaine with its centre of gravity in Côte-Rôtie, and that northern Rhône address marks this Viognier 2023 before the first pour. The estate name joins Gilbert Clusel and Brigitte Roch, a detail that feels useful in a region where many labels still read like family signposts. Guillaume Clusel is part of the current generation, and the domaine has become known for careful farming across small parcels in the steep country around Ampuis. Biodynamic certification is a concrete part of the estate's identity, and it fits the way this white shows grass, tea, and stony grip ahead of heavy perfume. Clusel-Roch is best known for red Côte-Rôtie, so this Viognier feels like a side door into the domaine's world, with the same granite and schist vocabulary translated into a dry white. In the glass, that translation appears as peach iced tea, damp hay, and a finish that feels more like a brushed stone than a bowl of tropical fruit.

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